A lieu being set up by former artist in residence Bavo Olbrechts throughout the entrance spaces of the exhibition rooms. Read more

Each year WIELS devotes one of its main exhibitions to a major Belgian artist. Walter Swennen, who was born in Brussels (Forest) in 1946, is a painter. Just like others in his generation he... Read more

Petrit Halilaj (b. 1986 in Kostërrc) was too young to remember the Berlin Wall falling but just old enough to remember all too well what came in its wake in what quickly became the ‘former’... Read more

Evi Vingerling’s paintings are not a hole in the wall or a portrayal of a fictive world. The paintings are mostly two colors, one color functioning as background and one as... Read more

Former artist in residency Fanny Zaman presents her new film entitled Local (Draft Version), alongside a series of photographs from her earlier film DplusOne. Premiered at FIDMarseille 2012,... Read more

With an annual summer exhibition, WIELS wants to emphasise on one of the least visible, but most important aspects of its operation: the residency programme, established in 2008. Based on the work... Read more

Jef Geys suggested the unlikely combination for this double-exhibition, which orchestrates a meeting between his work and that of Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, who is described as... Read more

Film as Sculpture looks at a new generation of artists and the ‘problem’ that a number of them seem to be insistently grappling with: how to create works that either sit between or... Read more

Hisachika worked in my studio for about a year. It was a collaboration of conversations and human and artistic contact. Hisachika left my studio. After some months, I saw his work. I think his... Read more

The works in this exhibition are the fruit of a series of workshops photographer Emilie Danchin conducted with a group from Forest’s Maison des Femmes.  Danchin led these women in a reflection... Read more

WIELS is presenting the first major survey exhibition in Belgium of German artist Thomas Bayrle, a pioneer of Pop, seriality and Media Art. The project extends WIELS’ commitment to promoting an... Read more

Cave / Construction / Ruin assembles works by Emmanuel Van der Auwera that were created or finalized during his residency at WIELS. The exhibition follows two lines: the first one,... Read more

WIELS is presenting the first large-scale exhibition of Joëlle Tuerlinckx' work in Brussels, the city where she lives and works. WOR(LD)K IN PROGRESS? retraces Joëlle Tuerlinckx's practice via new pieces and through the reactivation of earlier works and constellations.  Read more